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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Purposedifferent
When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend30-90 min45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-82-82-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision BoundariesDecision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected OptionCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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